Suppliers contacted by ComputerWeekly had little to say about the PASC findings, which were published yesterday and heavily recommended that the government should widen its supplier base and work with more SMEs by reducing the size of contracts and simplifying the procurement process.

Accenture, BT, Capita and Serco all said the report did not apply to them, while Atos Origin flat-out refused to comment, and IBM and CSC made no response.

Fujitsu and Logica made statements about the good work they did for government, leaving Capgemini as the only supplier that said it would talk.

The UK's largest government supplier HP offered up trade association Intellect to speak on its and other suppliers' behalf.

Intellect said the talk of a cartel was "outrageous" and said it would support an investigation into the allegations - although it added an investigation would be "a waste of public money".

This week, IndependenceIT unveiled the 4.0 version of Cloud Workspace Suite, which features a number of enhancements; Knowledge Vault launched a partner program for its cloud-based analytics-as-a-service platform; and more.

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